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| Edward Young Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. | Adversity |
| 2 | There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth. | Advice |
| 3 | Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgement, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon. | Aging |
| 4 | They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, produce their debt, instead of their discharge. | Ancestor |
| 5 | What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! | Beauty |
| 6 | Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. | Bragging |
| 7 | It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength. | Candor |
| 8 | Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd; he that hath none must take them, or be wretched; cares are employments; and without employ the soul is on the rack; the rack of rest, to souls most adverse; action all their joy. | Care |
| 9 | Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion. | Criticism |
| 10 | Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause. | Dreams |
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